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Show ACCUSED WGMAI. IS FCUf.D NOT GUILTY, ;Charged With Drunkenness After Flaying Police, but Acquitted by Jury. Special to The Tribune. CGPEN, Aug. S. The supposition that a person must be intoxicated else he or , she would not express his or. her opinion of a police officer when told to get out , ! of town was discounted by a jury in the ; municipal court this afternoon when : Millie Bremer, rh.irgrd with being intoxi-; intoxi-; cat. J, was found not guilty by a jury; : composed of Heary A. Anderson. 1 K. : H or kins. Will lam Sumner arid 1. Carlile. The case was tried before Judge, George Parker. ' The principal witnesses for the prosecution prosecu-tion were Chief of Police T. E. Browning anil Police Sergeant J. H. Kelliher. Ac-' t coi ling to the evidence, the Bremer wo- ; : man. who first gae the alias of Jane - Doe. came to Odc-n recently from Wyo-: Wyo-: ming and was talkiii with tb.e pro- ! prietor of a Greek co i:--e I'ovise at 131 . Twent -I'lfta'stiCft wfx-n first approach.d : - by Serjeant Keiliher. ! This officer is alleged to have told her ; that site mash qo to work or set out of . 1 town. When site showe.i a disposition to ; disregard ih.e ordt.-:-, Chi-f of Police. Browning callei in. Knracd at bt- . ing sub;ectc'i to such an indignity in a ; public place. t!.e Bremer woman is said i to have flayed ti-.e pMice cbief in veiy . ! definite laneriice. Si";e was arrested and su'rse.;uemly caarced with drunkenness. , In substance, tbe police ciiu-f and , hi e seraant testifiei today that the wo- . man must have been drunk else she would not have p o r : r. 1 1 ; e 1 : i e rs e ! f to i 1 y im o such a raze. I'nuer the s,ime conditions.' a man would have have ha the chief of ; police in the nose with ihs fist. Attorney i Jo nr. O. I'axis argue 1 to the hiry. Tne ! verdict of not gjiUy was rendered within l a few minutes after the arguments. |